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It’s Shutterfly’s birthday and they’re giving away 5 million prints for free until August 14. In its 8 years of existence, the company says their customers have uploaded more than 1.5 billion photos and have ordered more than 500 million prints. So they’re giving away one percent of those prints now. Since July 2, Shutterfly …
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Samsung has announced its 5-megapixel G600 camera phone targeted at image conscious users who also want high performance. The Samsung G600 is a slider design housed in a fashionable black two-toned 102 x 47.8 x 14.9mm frame shell. It sports various modes such as panorama or mosaic settings and offers a built-in Power LED flash. …
This one sounds like a dream but it’s here now and costs only $30. The Photobot picture correction software works in the background while you do other things on your computer. It fixes red-eye, brightens dark pictures and corrects the color of your photos. And you don’t need to open any application or work on …
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A 75-year-old woman in Karlstad, central Sweden is said to have the fastest Internet connection in the world, 40 Gigabits per second, able to download a full length movie in just two seconds. Sigbritt Lothberg’s Internet connection is a fiber optic setup installed by his son Peter who’s a networking expert with the help of …
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Canon plans to release by the end of this month new firmware (v.1.0.9) for the professional EOS-1D Mark III DSLR to fix the camera’s autofocus problem. But photographer Rob Galbraith, who first blew the whistle on the problem, says the firmware update does not fix the thing. He says he still has problems with autofocus …
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Did you know that photojournalist Harry Benson uses only the Canon EOS-1D Mark II for the past couple of years? He has used everything of course from a 4 x 5 plate camera to Rolleiflex, Minolta, Nikon and Hasselblad, but the Canon Mark II “has been an amazing change for me. I have a new …
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Sony has a new line of sleek and light notebooks designed to empty your wallet, but satisfy the style-conscious geek in you. The new Vaio TZ line of ultra-portable laptops from Sony of course features high-performance and high-fashion for the money, packing in the power of a larger PC into a small, portable form factor, …
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Sigma Corp. today launched two new EF-530 DG electronic flash units, both with Guide Number 53 and covering a focal length of 24-105mm. Both are designed to work with the latest TTL auto exposure systems of all popular manufacturers’ digital SLR cameras. The Sigma EF-530 DG Super features modeling flash function, multi pulse flash, TTL …
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Here’s a new flash diffuser for Canon, Nikon and Pentax DSLRs: Professor Ken Kobre’s Lightscoop, is designed to bounce the flash like professionals bounce an external flash. You just slip it into the pop-up flash of your DSLR and shoot away, no need for elaborate lighting setups. The Lightscoop redirects your flash to the ceiling …
Fujifilm Europe has launched the new FinePix F47fd digital camera, a 9-megapixel update to the F40fd and F45fd. The FinePix F47fd features the same hardware-based Face Detection technology that debuted with the F31fd, and also featured in the FinePix S6500fd and Z5fd. Fujifilm’s Face Detection ensures the camera prioritizes faces in the frame and will …
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